Haha ok, maybe she called Marit to ask her: do you have a song like caught off guard? That's so funny in a way. because Marit told me all the time, I don't see her, you see her more than I do. Or Maria told me the same: why you always meet some Norwegian musicians I know.

This article (in Norwegian) says that Karpe Diem (Norwegian hip hop duo) is the only newcomer on the Norwegian single charts this week: vg.no/rampelys/musikk/norsk-mu…ed-tre-sanger/a/23560917/ It says "they're the only one in the top 20 this week". The Norwegian charts is a top 20 + 20 more kind of charts now, after first being top 20 only. Guess we'll have to see during this weekend if they'll actually update the charts.

I'm hoping to see Maria's single in the charts next week (i.e. Friday 20th).

I've been looking around at the catalogue of ASCAP (the catalogue where many artists register their songs to state information about songwriting credits). ASCAP's catalogue is here: ascap.com/Home/ace-title-search/index.aspx

"I Don't Wanna See You with Her" has Maria and Mats Lie Skåre listed as writers. If it's the same kind of collaboration as on Weapon in Mind, I think Maria wrote the melody and Mats worked on composing the melody and producing the song. The song "Not Sober" is also listed in the catalogue, with Maria and Mats having songwriting credits.

I'm trying to dig around in the catalogue a little more at the moment, but I think we will se more songwriting credits being published.

Sunnychili: I reckoned it would be. But it's a little weird to block also for the countries that have the same language, in my opinion. Both the record company and audience could benefit from giving access to Swiss and Austrian people as well.

The Instagram picture that Maria posted today says "Had so much Fun at work today ! #tomwood #holzweiler@tomwood_____ @hzw_agency" and the location says "NRK" (instagram.com/p/-TdzqDxeFw/?taken-by=mariamena_official). NRK is the Norwegian national broadcaster (with TV and radio broadcasting). I checked the radio portal at NRK's website to see if there were any new programs featuring an interview, but there's nothing new. Now I'm suspecting she might have taped something that's comping up, but I might be wrong. Or it might be something photography related, using NRK as a location.

Since Sam Smith postet the last picture I am so much seeking just for a prelistening...some seconds from every song. But well, only two weeks to go

For Melissa Horn's new album that will be released on November 27th (Melissa is a Swedish artist who's a friend of Maria), Sony Music Norway (and Sony Music Sweden as well, I think) released a song yesterday. On iTunes it says that the song is a single, but it's becoming more and more common for record companies to release promotional singles from the album just before the album release. We'll see what happens

The video that is at VGTV's site didn't work for one of the US fans commenting on Facebook. I don't remember where I read it but another person in the USA wrote that "Looks gorgeous! I can't wait to see it! Also, does anyone know when the music video will be available in the US? I can watch it with a VPN, but not using regular US Internet." Anyway - the more places to watch the video, the better the chances are that more people will be able to watch it